The Lived Experience Of Latina/o Peer Mentees: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach

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dc.contributor.advisorHultgren, Francineen_US
dc.contributor.authorGomez Riquelme, Luis Angeloen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-07T06:04:24Z
dc.date.available2012-07-07T06:04:24Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research is about the peer mentee experience of Latina/o students. For this purpose, a group of nine participants were selected, who were part of a peer mentoring program in a Mid-Atlantic public university. The experiences they shared were interpreted through the methodological lens of hermeneutic phenomenology. The purpose of this study is to begin filling in one of the voids in the mentoring practice, which is the experience of peer mentees, and what this study reveals is that the peer mentee experience is the result of loneliness and prejudice that Latina/o students are able to overcome when they have a good peer mentoring experience. This interpretation is done following Clark Moustakas' philosophy of being. Peer mentees receive guidance and help alleviating their solitude, which in this study is interpreted as being-with. Consequently, peer mentees find purpose and are reminded of the reason why they stay in college, which herein is interpreted through the existential concept of being-for. Finally, this study also reveals that being a peer mentee can help finding or making sense of being in college and recovering a sense of belonging, which is interpreted through the phenomenological concept of being-with. The recommendations of this study to improve this practice involve fostering community, creating a sense of belonging, and advocating for a pedagogical experience that is liberated of prejudices and assumptions about Latinas/os, in addition to continuing the support of peer mentoring.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12705
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHigher educationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational administrationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSchool counselingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcollegeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCounselingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLatinoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMentoringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPeer Mentoringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPhenomenologyen_US
dc.titleThe Lived Experience Of Latina/o Peer Mentees: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approachen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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